[PiP PiP Cherrio]

OK, so why would a well-placed, high-ranking diplomat from a Western European nation acknowledge the US presense in Aracinovo? You feel s/he is lying? I think your "Internet Warriorness" is wearing thin with many of us, Hoplite. Provide proof there wasn't US personell among that group of terrorists?

What about the uranium that is inside Kosovo?

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Pip Pip, The evacuation at Aracinovo was a NATO operation done at the behest of the Macedonian government. Look at the statements made at the time by Macedonian officials. There were Americans involved as part of NATO, but--again--there was nobody from the US government, or anybody associated in any way with the US--involved in training or advising or assisting the KLA at Aracinovo or anywhere else during the Macedonian fighting. Perhaps there may have been private U.S. citizens with the KLA at Aracinovo--U.S. citizens have left the country on their own to serve in wars from the French Revolution to the Spanish Civil War & even to become part of the Taliban in Afghanistan! Your diplomat friend may have been referring to that type of involvement, which of course in no way reflects the US government's position. Or maybe he was just referring to the Americans operating as part of the NATO effort done in coordination with the FYROM government.